Jackie Chan: 70 Years of the Flaming Dragon
Jackie Chan celebrates his 70th birthday on 7 April 2024. In honour of my idol, I would like to pay my own personal respects by dedicating a creative text to him. Thank you for everything, Big Brother!
Filmtech – Jackie Chan’s forgotten film equipment rental company (UPDATED)
When I started work on my text “Jackie Chan, a trademark designed to succeed” for the 88 films release of one of my favourite Jackie Chan films “Armour Of God” in the spring of 2021, I knew that the article would be exorbitantly long and detailed and that I would have to open and close a site that had remained hidden for decades: Jackie’s film equipment rental company.
Like son like father: Charles Chan’s guest appearances in Jackie Chan’s films
The actor and director Jackie Chan does not come from an acting family like his Hollywood colleagues Michael Douglas, Michael Keaton or Charlie Sheen. With his breakthrough in the late 1970s, he not only ensured that his friends and stuntman colleagues got film jobs, but he also made up for lost time with his father on his own film sets – sometimes in front of the camera.